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Week 11: Cloud-to-cloud Lightning
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This week a powerful storm system hit the region. We avoided the worst of the hail and high winds, but we still saw quite a bit of lightning. I wanted to take a photo of the bolts, which was surprisingly hard to do. This was the best shot I could manage.
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On one of my evening walks, I came across an old tree with a sagging branch. Years of love from the locals--or abuse, depending on one's viewpoint--have left the tree requiring some support. The sign reads: "Please do not climb on ME. I am old. That is why I have a crutch. If they see you climbing on ME, they will cut off my arm. So please, no climbing... but hugs are okay."
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One of my cycling routes takes me through an industrial park on the outskirts of town. There are many large warehouses and a bustling train yard nearby, but undeveloped farmland surrounds them, and I don't have to share the backroads with pedestrians or other cyclists. Of course, most of the warehouses are designed with intermodal shipping in mind, and stacks of containers are littered everywhere. This one seemed rather najestic to me, like a series of cliffs.
Week 08: What Happened to Greenland?
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My wife and I visited an arts and crafts shop a few days ago. I hadn't been to one in a while, and while she picked out decorations and tools, I wandered down the aisles. This scrapbook, adorned with a world map stylized to look like paint splotches, caught my eye. Most of the world looked okay, but Greenland was in bad shape.
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We have owned a Pump It Up arcade machine for many years, but when we moved into our current house, we discovered that the cabinet did not fit in our basement. We decided to take the metal dance pads downstairs by themselves and set up a community build of PIU on a standard computer. I finally got around to configuring the dance pads this week.
Week 06: Chai and Mocha Eat an Egg
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Ferrets are not treat-driven animals: on the contrary, they tend to imprint on the food they eat regularly and dislike trying new things. One treat the ferrets love, however, is an egg yolk. Chai (left) and Mocha (right) are seen enjoying the snack here.
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After a rough few weeks with busy work shifts and freezing temperatures, I had a chance to get out and visit a park in the city. The weather was beautiful, the melting snow revealed still-green grass underneath, and the sidewalks and trails were packed with walkers. I caught this shot of a pond in the park when relatively few people were nearby.
Week 04: StepManiaX Improvement
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On of my friends from the arcade community has agreed to exercise weekly with me. Our routine usually consists of going to a local arcade and playing a dance game there for a few hours. StepManiaX is rapidly becoming one of my favorite dance games, and we decided to play it this week. My accuracy in the game is much improved since I first played it in 2022.
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An unusually-strong cold snap hit the American Midwest over the last few weeks; in our region, some days had a daily high temperature below 0 F (-18 C). Many filling stations have a container of wash fluid that customers can use to clean their car windows, but the stations usually empty the containers before it gets this cold. I had never seen the liquid actually frozen before today.
Week 02: In Emergency, Break Case
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A family friend flew into town to visit for a few days this week. We arrived at the airport quite early on the day of his flight, so we decided to park and wait inside the terminal. A fire extinguisher was mounted on the pillar next to our parking space. Its metal case had seen better days.
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A cabinet in our bathroom has three doors, each covered with a mirror. I keep my things on one side and my wife keeps hers on the other. It's not common for us to use the cabinet at the same time, but when it happens, the doors create a series of reflections similar to a hall of mirrors. One particular pattern caught my eye this week.
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